This reply only went to kernel-team... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: linux-image-386 kernel for x86 routers Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:52:13 +0200 From: Stefan Bader <[email protected]> To: Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig <[email protected]> CC: [email protected]
On 24.05.2011 21:43, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote:
Hi all, I wanted to upgrade my Alix router to the latest Ubuntu Server version. On my ALIX router (http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm) I had installed a Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS. The AMD Geode CPU of the router doesn't work with generic Linux kernels, but instead needs the Ubuntu kernel: linux-image-386 (the kernel for Intel 386 compatible CPUs). The problem is that in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 linux-image-386 doesn't exist any more... My request is: Can someone set up a PPA for Ubuntu 11.04 and maybe even reconsider to ship a 386 kernel in the main repository for Ubuntu Oneiric. Regards, Gerold
I am not sure whether a 386 kernel would help that much. At the UDS for Maverick it was decided to compile the whole of user-space with m686[1]. This was done to allow better optimization for the majority of current hardware. Unfortunately that means some older hardware stopped being supported with Lucid. So a 386 kernel in main is unlikely to happen. You still could compile your own kernels[2] if user-space is not causing issues (or run your own PPA) by getting the generic source and adapt the config (fakeroot debian/rules editconfig). One other thing, not sure this may help or not, but the i386 server installations are using the generic-pae kernel afaik. And maybe that is what breaks the Geode. Have you tried the generic i386 kernel (without -pae)? -Stefan [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-m-686-compile [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
